• @[email protected]
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      9 months ago

      It’s time [to] explain the meaning of “Hurd”. “Hurd” stands for “Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons”. And, then, “Hird” stands for “Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth”. We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

      — Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell


      Wow TIL

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      Linux
      Is
      Not
      Uni-
      X